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and dust, revealed hundreds bruised, or with broken limbs, without a roof to shelter them, many without a garment to cover them.

It required some hours' familiarity with such scenes, before the mind assumed sufficient composure and capability of abstracting the attention, to pursue the immediate objects of my inquiry.